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Incidence of Deaths by Poisoning Animals in the Endemic Region during the Twentieth Century

2013; Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine; Volume: 35; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0971097320130219

0974-0848

Agustín Hernández Anaya,

Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research

We analyzed the 100% of the reported deaths registered on the municipality of Acatic, Jalisco Mexico during the XX century, scorpions deaths were 80.43%, spider and insects deaths were 17.39% and snake bites deaths were 2.17%, The present study shows that maximum cases of poisoning animals bites were during the mounts of raining at the study area during May 16 to July 17 with 13 cases which represents 28.26%, Maximum number of deaths was in the age group of kids were 6 years old or less which represent 93.47%, Males predominated females in the ratio 1.42:1, Maximum poisoning bites occur from 5:00 to 11:30 AM with 22 cases which represents 47.82%, the maximum group affected by poisoning bites were on rural communities 89.13% and agriculture workers 80.43%. During the period of the century 1901–1925 have been presented 19 cases which represent 41.30%, the period that present maximum cases were 1926–1950 with 20 that represents 43.47%, during the period 1951–1975 happens 6 cases 13.04% and 1 case for the period 1976–2000 which represents 2.17%.